Listeners called into the C4 Show Thursday to give their view on the death of 7 year old shar pei Nala by the police

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Officer Jeffrey Bolger

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she's 'totally disgusted' about the killing of Nala, the 7-year-old Sharpei.

A second officer was taken off the streets Thursday for his alleged involvement. The Baltimore City Police Department suspended Officer Thomas Schmidt, a 24-year-veteran, with pay for his role in the incident.

Charging documents showed that Schmidt held the dog down during the killing. He has not been criminally charged. The dog was killed on Saturday after police responded to a report that it had bitten a woman. The Police Department said Wednesday that 22-year police veteran Jeffery Bolger slit the dog's throat. He remains free on his own recognizance.

In an interview from the 82nd Annual Conference of Mayors in Dallas, Texas, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said 'the actions were certainly unnecessary.'

"You think to yourself, this can't be true," she said. "It was blatant disregard for the life a seemingly innocent animal."

She said support the police commissioners investigation.

Bolger faces felony charges associated with animal cruelty.

"I don't want him to have his job. I don't want him to be able to go on calls and act like that to a person, or to a dog. That's not OK. It's not OK," said Sarah Gossard, Nala's owner.

Court documents indicate Bolger and other officers responded to a call in the Canton area Saturday morning regarding a pregnant woman getting bitten by a dog.

Sandra Fleischer said it happened when she tried to read the tags on the dog's collar. She said she found it odd that officers tried to corral the dog using a broken stick and piece of string.

"Nobody really seemed to know what to do," Fleischer said. The department's Special Operations Section then showed up with a dog-control pole. Charging documents indicated that as Bolger got out of his vehicle, he allegedly stated, "I'm going to (expletive) gut this thing."

"One police officer said, 'Let's get the noose on the dog,' and you could see the police officer twisting and hurting the dog, bringing it to the ground to the point where the dog's face is on the ground," Fleischer said. "You could hear the dog screaming and crying in pain."

Police said they're investigating the case thoroughly.

"We are also looking at our policy. The department this year went to great lengths to minimize the threat posed by either stray dogs or dogs at the scene of police investigations," Baltimore City Deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez said.

In addition to standard operating procedures outlining policy at each district, the department last year produced a training video available to officers, even at the academy level.